- AMD might cancel its high-end RX 9080 XT graphics card because GDDR7 memory is too expensive right now, largely due to AI demand.
- This cancellation means AMD will lack a top-tier GPU to compete against Nvidia's upcoming RTX 50 Super series.
- The RX 9080 XT was intended to feature 32GB of VRAM and deliver up to 30% faster performance than the RX 9070 XT, which would have put it ahead of the RTX 5080 Super.
New rumours have arrived in the graphics card market suggesting that AMD may be scaling back its plans for a higher-end RDNA 4 GPU. According to the rumours, the AMD Radeon RX 9080 XT can be canceled due to the high memory costs. If this happens, AMD will have only mid-range or upper mid-range GPUs, AMD's RX 9070 and RX 9070 XT, and there will not be any new GPUs to compete with the upcoming Nvidia RTX 50 Super series GPUs.
The best surprise in 2025 was that AMD's Radeon RX 9070 XT, equipped with 16 GB of VRAM, offered better performance than the RTX 5070 Ti, and instead of costing around 1100$ it was priced at 700-750$. Also, when overclocked, the RX 9070 XT could reach the level of the RTX 5080, despite costing nearly twice as much and offering the same 16 GB of memory capacity.
We weren't surprised when Lisa Su announced that the RX 9070 XT had become the best-selling Radeon graphics card in history. It's rare to see a card with such a good performance/price ratio that it almost equals an NVIDIA card that costs twice as much. Even when the Radeon R9 290 was more accessible, the price differential between it and NVIDIA's GTX 780 was not significant.
The logical next step was to continue releasing models with a high performance-to-price ratio, but these never materialized, and the RX 9080 XT, which was supposed to be the top-of-the-line model with 32GB of VRAM, was canceled.
The RX 9080 XT was designed to compete with NVIDIA's top models, delivering higher performance with a Navi 48 chip and up to 30% faster performance than the RTX 9070 XT. This would have put it ahead of the impending RTX 5080 SUPER and given it more memory than its rival, namely 24 GB of GDDR7. The reason for its termination is that adding 32 GB of GDDR7 would have resulted in a card with a very high manufacturing cost and, thus, a high retail price.
AMD has a price advantage over NVIDIA, and the RX 9000 series graphics cards have not witnessed major price increases due to the use of last-generation GDDR6 memory. While this does not dramatically affect performance, it does impact prices, particularly in the current memory market, where demand from the AI sector has significantly increased costs.
As a result, AMD is unlikely to introduce an RX 9080 XT with 32GB of GDDR7 RAM since it does not want to lose its pricing advantage over NVIDIA. However, they could still manufacture a graphics card with GDDR6 RAM that is more powerful than the RX 9070 XT.
For example, similar to RX 9080 XT but with GDDR6, we have the Radeon AI PRO R9700, which is built on the RDNA 4 architecture, primarily designed for local AI development, costs more than €1,000 and features 32 GB of GDDR6 memory at 256 bits, a 300W power consumption, and a 2.9 GHz clock speed. The decision to release a new graphics card or to wait for the RDNA 5 processors, which are expected to launch next year, now depends on the manufacturer.
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